Both directories are in Lithuanian. They contain much
information about the medical establishment, about 85% of
whose members were Jewish. People were listed by
ethnic/religious group, and this database contains those
who were Jewish.

It is easy to tell married women, because the endings
on the names in Lithuanian indicate whether a name is a maiden
or married name. Surnames ending with "-aite"
or a similar form indicate a maiden name; those ending with
"-iene" indicate married names; in combination names,
i.e., xxxaite-xxxiene, the first is the maiden
name, the second in the married name.

Spelling note: The letter "c" in Lithuanian is
pronounced like the letters "ts" in English, so "Gurevic"
is equivalent to Gurevitz or Gurwitz. The letter "s"
with the proper diacritical mark is pronounced "sh".
We don't have diacritical marks here, so "Svarts" is equivalent
to Shvartz or Schwartz. Moreover, Lithuanians feel impelled to add
some sort of a suffix to names, like -ius, -as, or
-is. Thus, Sreiberis is what we would write Shreiber
or Schreiber.

Fields listed in this database:

Surname, Married Surname, First Name, Maiden Surname

Profession, Specialty

Citizenship, Birth Year, Sex

Town of Residence, Street Address

Source of Degree, Year Degree Granted

Year of the Directory containing the entry (1923 or 1925)

Page in Directory, ID# in Directory

Serial Number, added for recovering the initial order.

"US Surname" (a stripped version of the Lithuanian surname)

Single asterisk = the maiden name of a married woman.

Double asterisk = the married name of a woman.

Notes (sparse)

Practicing at (sparse)

Towns of Residence:

118 Lithuanian towns are represented in this data.
For most towns, there are only a handful of listings.
The towns best represented (with the number of listings
for each) are:

Kaunas (281)

Panevezys (68)

Siauliai (46)

Marijampolė (30)

Vilkaviskis (28)

Ukmergė (27)

Raseiniai (17)

Sanaiai (13)

Zagarė (10)

Jurbarkas (10)

Alytus (10)

Taurage (9)

Note that Vilna (Vilnius) is not represented. Between the
two World Wars, Vilnius was not in Lithuania. During this
period, this city was in Poland, and was called Wilno.

District Changes:

These are the towns which had districts indicated in the
original list (the other towns were district towns) with their
current district. Note that there are some that are not
changed but many are. The new districts are, evidently,
smaller and more numerous.